Some motivational videos are unintentionally toxic. A certain message can really do damage to certain people.
There are two phrases I want to share with you today.
Question: What would you do if you had only 30 minutes left to live? Would you go spend time with your kids or your mom or dad? Would you go to the gym or be at work? I would be around my family — let me do this for the rest of my life. Living your everyday life with the mentality of living it as if you were to die in 30 minutes isn’t really a great message to instill. This grants a major life perspective.
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Next question: If you have 30 minutes left to live and were worth $100 million dollars, how long would it take you to run out of your savings? Here’s an example: Say you have $50,000 in your bank account and your expenses are $10,000/month. In five months, you’re out and may now have to start dipping into credit card debt. Then it’s back to getting a job and saving again. This is not a very effective strategy.
Here’s another scenario: When I first started doing business, I would hear these speakers give the same exact message. What message was that?
Imagine if one day, you make so much money that you never have to work a single day in your life ever again.
I bought into that dream when I was a brand spanking new insurance agent, thinking that’s THE LIFE.
My dad is 81 years old. He was in the hospital for five days last week. He’s working every day. My dad works, not because he HAS to. So, I’m struggling with this contradiction. I asked the same speaker who sold that dream years later, “Was that just something you say when people are smaller, and you try to sell them that dream?
“You have to say that, because if you tell everybody what it really takes to run a big business, they will never start in the first place.” He continues, “now that you’ve worked hard to get to the level you’re at right now, you’ve built a multimillion-dollar year business; you realize what it took to build this. If you want to take it to the next level, you have to keep it going, because a lot of people are targeting your business.”
It’s an investment. It’s a responsibility. It’s YOUR business.
You need to pay the price for the success you want to achieve. The same applies with having kids — nobody tells you what it takes to have kids, they just tell you how awesome it is. What they don’t tell you is that each child is a company you run for the rest of your life. Then you have kids and you realize that for each child you have, it’s a company you run for the rest of your life.
Ask the question when somebody sells you an idea — ‘is this really true?’
If you’re not afraid of work, people must tell you straight up what it’s going to be like. You ought to be excited in meeting that person who’s at the ‘next level.’
Life is not about NOT working and simply chilling. There are greater things in life, and the best things in life require a lot of work. I want to experience the best highs in life and I’m sure you do as well.
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